Trump says US will see economic ‘bloodbath’ if he’s not re-elected: Live

Former vice president Mike Pence announced that he would not endorse former president and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in 2024 in an interview with Fox News on Friday.

Mr Pence’s words come after Mr Trump secured enough delegates to become the Republican nominee for president. Host Martha MacCaullum asked Mr Pence about how other Republican candidates for president backed the former president and whether Mr Pence would.

“It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” he said, while highlighting conservative accomplishments of the Trump administration.

“It defies logic for Fani Willis or Nathan Wade to remain on this case, considering the clear evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, including evidence of financial gain and providing untruthful testimony.

“This whole show-trial should concern every American, including those who won’t be voting for President Trump, because while they might be targeting President Trump and Mayor Giuliani today, they’ll eventually come for you too—that is the danger of remaining silent in the face of injustice. The encouraging news is that more and more Americans are waking up to the fact that this whole show trial is part of a larger effort to keep President Trump out of the White House and to silence his supporters.

“It’s a sad day in America. We are showing the world that the United States no longer has a fair system of justice.”

Ted Goodman, Political Advisor to Mayor Rudy Giuliani

In an appearance on Fox News this afternoon, Donald Trump’s former vice president Mike Pence said he could not be endorsing his one-time boss.

“It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” he told Martha MacCallum.

While Mr Pence said he was proud of the record of the Trump administration, he said there were fundamental differences between him and the former president, not just over his constitutional role on 6 January 2021.

The former vice president then listed a litany of reasons in which Mr Trump had lost his vote — namely he was no longer pursuing a conservative agenda.

Mr Pence then declined to say who he would vote for in November but clarified it would not be for Joe Biden.

But only if the lead prosecutor and a former romantic partner she hired was willing to step down.

The judge overseeing the case against Mr Trump and more than a dozen of his allies rejected their attempts to dismiss the case and refused to disquality Ms Willis following hours of testimony and arguments over allegations that she financially benefited from Nathan Wade’s hiring.

A decision from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee on 15 March offered her a choice: she can remove herself from the case, along with her entire office, or Mr Wade can step aside.

Continue reading to find out what will likely happen next…

President Joe Biden’s campaign accused his 2024 rival Donald Trump of wanting “another January 6” after the former president warned there would be an economic “bloodbath” if he loses the election.

Speaking in Ohio on Saturday to endorse a GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, Mr Trump told the crowd, “Now, if I don’t get elected … it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country.”

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Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro has asked the Supreme Court to help him stave off his jail sentence.

Navarro was found guilty of contempt of Congress for defying the January 6 select committee’s subpoena and must report to federal prison in Miami by Tuesday to serve four months in jail.

Kelly Rissman has the details and background to the judge’s decision:

Judge Juan Merchan wrote on Friday, 15 March that the trial would be postponed by 30 days from the date of his letter, meaning it would begin in mid-April.

Former President Donald Trump is always in his least controllable state when unchained from his teleprompter — and Saturday afternoon’s rally in Dayton, Ohio was a prime example.

The event at the home of the Dayton Air Show was billed as an event to boost Bernie Moreno, a local car dealership mogul and business owner, to victory in the state’s quickly-approaching Senate primary on Tuesday. Mr Moreno, running his second campaign for Congress, is backed by Mr Trump’s endorsement for the first time and hopes that it will push him past his rivals in the Republican field.

Read more from John Bowden below:

Judge Juan Merchan wrote on Friday, 15 March that the trial would be postponed by 30 days, meaning it would begin in mid-April.

Alex Woodward lays out the path forward for the case against Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia: